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Obstetrics
back to Services listingThe obstetric service provides facilities and specialist care for
local and regional patients requiring elective or emergency treatments.
We provide secondary services for the Waikato DHB region and tertiary
for the Midland region with more than 3700 deliveries per annum.
| Our recently refurbished delivery suite has seven birthing rooms, an
operating theatre, a three-bedded recovery area and a two-bedded high
dependency unit. A Women’s Assessment Unit (WAU) of 12 beds is adjacent
to the delivery suite and provides services to acute and semi-urgent
pregnant women of greater than 20 weeks gestation.
There is a 16-bedded antenatal ward and a 24-bedded post-natal ward.
Who we are:- Clinical unit leader, O & G
- Clinical midwifery managers and specialised nursing and midwifery staff
- 12 consultant positions
- Clinical midwife director
- Eight registrar positions – six training positions
- Seven SHO positions
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Clinical experience opportunities- Investigation and treatment of infectious conditions of the genital tract
- Acute abdominal pain in women
- Scope of ante-natal care
- Recognition of abnormal pregnancy
- Management of obstetric emergencies
- The normal puerperium
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